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Plenty of precedent for seizing private property for national defence. The list is long and growing.
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Citation please.

Selective Service System is evidence enough of the government's power to oblige participation in defence.... But if you're interested...

https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...


Selective service activation, I.E. a draft. Requires an act of Congress. When did they enact a bill to draft Anthropic?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Production_Act_of_1950

Great article, it has a list of times it's been used to compel cooperation.


Ok. So what's the emergency prompting them to take control of Anthropic?

Further, why would they also accuse them of being a national security threat in the same breath? Seems like if they're a threat they're also not someone you want working on national security. Especially under duress. That feels like a bad combination.


That link is specifically discussing actions the government takes in war. Like, a real, ongoing, war where it's accepted extraordinary actions may be necessary that conflict with peacetime rights to private property (it was written during World War 2).



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